CLA.. any one else?

heidi_sweetclover · Post by **heidi_sweetclover** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:34 pm

So, I have been hearing about CLA for a little while now, and decided to go and buy some to give it a try.
Apparently it was naturally occurring in meat and cheeses before humans and our incessant processing of natural foods got involved.
Supposedly it helps your body to utilize the fats that you take in instead of just storing them... or something to that effect.
Just wondering if anyone else has tried it and/or seen any positive/negative results!

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:43 pm

you don't store fat you ingest, you store cal's you ingest from eating too many and not expending too many....no supp will help that...better eating and more exercise will though

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 6:43 pm

I'd agree that something like CLA has it's place. I'm not enamoured with similar things like L-Carnitine however. I believe it's quite good, now supposedly classed as an Amino Acid, for some reason, but I think some people use Carnitine as some kind of magic Fat metaboliser.

It's almost certainly not that good.

CLA I'd give credit to though. As long as you eat right and train well, I see no reason not to use it.

DianaB · Post by **DianaB** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:11 pm

Buy grass fed beef if you want to up your CLA. It's pricey but very tasty and is chock full of natural occurring CLA.

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:49 pm

Grass fed is better way for the animal to be reared as well. A Lot of Meat in Britain is now classd as Grass fed, often with a liberal inclusion of Whole-grain, not just a load of crappy grains, and no Grass, which was probably more the case 30+ years ago.

rynuku · Post by **rynuku** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:04 pm

i use cla...its actually one of the supplements i do use...i work out every day...eat pretty good...

i take a multivitamin
glucosamine (for joints...i do alot of squats, deadlifts etc)
protein shakes
sometimes cycle creatine
fishoil
and last but not least CLA

ive been taking it for a few months now...i get the pro performance tonalin cla from gnc...i cant tell u whether or not taking cla and not making any other changes will do anything...maybe cla is just another scam but ive been taking it during the time i went from 305-250...might of just been diet and exercise but CLA could have been a contributor...id recommend it

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:55 pm

Well CLA is a very healthy kind of Fat, but like all health Fats moderation is still key.

Fat has roughly a 50g a day reccomended upper limit. with 20 max Saturates limit.

So what you're doing, is not entirely but partly replicating with Fish Oil benefits, what CLA does.

This isn't a bad thing, as it's okay to have multiple EFA fat sources per day, just be mindful that supplementing will bump up daily amounts, and not to go too high on the supps, if your diet has a decent amount of EFA's / Unsaturates, and some Saturate in it already.

Boss Man · Post by **Boss Man** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:14 pm

I wouldn't have thought so. As I stated before with the saturates and total fats numbers in the post your quoted.